OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221414964
UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, INC.
ONTARIO, CA·
Event description
Employee suffers heat illness while delivering packages
Investigation abstract
At approximately 5:30 p.m. on June 15, 2021, an employee worked as a delivery driver. The employee was making deliveries in his non-air-conditioned delivery truck during a heat wave. He had returned from a 7 week's leave one day before the incident. He began experiencing symptoms of heat illness in the afternoon. He drove himself to the nearest hospital emergency room. He was subsequently hospitalized for non-traumatic kidney injury.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 34 M
- Event type
- 14
- Occupation code
- 0
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